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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12240 on: November 15, 2015, 03:11:43 PM »
I'm going to oslo (again) in a couple weeks for another concert, but i'm not staying anywhere as fancy as a hotel. more like. the small cramped (but hopefully a little bit tidier than last time) flat of my friend. where we'll stay and play eldritch horror board games on the couch or something. aw yeah

That sounds exponentially more fun than staying in a "fancy" hotel. For the record I hate hotels. Well, usually. Mountain cabins are so much better.

Did- you take the glass elevator? I'm a wimp who's afraid of heights, so that is a complete nu-uh for me, but if you're not, it might be worth doing? *has a really hard time giving advice on what to do in own city*

I'm bored out of my mind here, of course I took the glass elevator. Three times actually. It was rubbish every time. Thanks for the tip though.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12241 on: November 15, 2015, 03:12:30 PM »
Who cares, free soy sauce and chopsticks!

One day I'll try sushi. Maybe tomorrow actually, since I'm in Oslo - sitting on the 24th floor of a hotel bored out of my mind. Guess I'll poor a bath with decadent amounts of soap.

hey, there's lots to do at a hotel! you could............. uh........ yeah pouring baths with decadent amounts of soap is probably the most entertaining thing to do at hotels if you don't work there.

Well, the second best option is eating sushi :)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12242 on: November 15, 2015, 03:33:49 PM »
That sounds exponentially more fun than staying in a "fancy" hotel. For the record I hate hotels. Well, usually. Mountain cabins are so much better.

I'm bored out of my mind here, of course I took the glass elevator. Three times actually. It was rubbish every time. Thanks for the tip though.
i'm imagining you bitterly poking at a rubber duck in that decadently oversoaped bath. in a non-creepy way


i also searched up the tallest buildings of oslo and trondheim, and it seems like the tyholt tower is taller than the 37 floor hotel? dang forget what i said about a lack of tall buildings in trondheim, we win
(the cathedral is second though)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12243 on: November 15, 2015, 03:38:45 PM »
i'm imagining you bitterly poking at a rubber duck in that decadently oversoaped bath. in a non-creepy way


i also searched up the tallest buildings of oslo and trondheim, and it seems like the tyholt tower is taller than the 37 floor hotel? dang forget what i said about a lack of tall buildings in trondheim, we win
(the cathedral is second though)

The bath is being poured right now, and by the looks of it a rubber duck would have no problem hiding in the frothy mists.

That's counting the spire though, right? You're not sitting more than 117 meters up? Not that it matters, nothing compares to a mountain.

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12244 on: November 15, 2015, 03:41:24 PM »
i also searched up the tallest buildings of oslo and trondheim, and it seems like the tyholt tower is taller than the 37 floor hotel? dang forget what i said about a lack of tall buildings in trondheim, we win
(the cathedral is second though)

Meanwhile it's probably best I don't mention anything about Hallgrímskirkja and a random tower structure of a shopping mall being the tallest buildings of Iceland...

(Actually I don't mind that at all: I much, much prefer the city centre with nothing taller than four floors. The few tall buildings that got built there during the bubble - and some afterwards because some areas had work halted during the depression - are bad enough.)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12245 on: November 15, 2015, 03:45:19 PM »
That's counting the spire though, right? You're not sitting more than 117 meters up? Not that it matters, nothing compares to a mountain.
yeahh probably not, no. on the list of "tallest buildings in norway", the tower is listed as only being almost 80 meters. but the number one spot here goes to something in Halden, of all places.

mountains are pretty great.
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« Reply #12246 on: November 15, 2015, 03:53:28 PM »
Meanwhile it's probably best I don't mention anything about Hallgrímskirkja being the tallest building of Iceland...
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« Reply #12247 on: November 15, 2015, 04:13:28 PM »
Meanwhile:
Spoiler: Unlos downloads Undertale • show

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12248 on: November 15, 2015, 06:15:32 PM »
Every time I'm in Oslo, I'm reminded why I don't like cities. Was there most of this weekend, although I was lucky enough I could crash on a couch.

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12249 on: November 15, 2015, 06:36:40 PM »
Every time I'm in Oslo, I'm reminded why I don't like cities. Was there most of this weekend, although I was lucky enough I could crash on a couch.

What were you doing in Oslo, Fen?  And why don't you like cities?
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12250 on: November 15, 2015, 06:47:18 PM »
What were you doing in Oslo, Fen?  And why don't you like cities?
Political stuff, and drinking. Not at the same time though. I dislike not being able to see further than the street goes before there's another building, not to mention the smell and how people seem to not even notice each other (less so in the east, mind. the place being full of foreigners at least means its not impossible to get some small talk on the tram). There's a lot more as well, but yeah, I prefer my rural area.

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12251 on: November 15, 2015, 06:49:48 PM »
It used to be the tallest hotel in Northern Europe until the Swedes built a three meter taller one, because that's what they do. Sweden, "capital of Scandinavia", what a bunch of [redacted].
Time to pick a different fight contest, methinks.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12252 on: November 15, 2015, 08:41:34 PM »
I cut all my hair off! I now have a bob :0
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12253 on: November 15, 2015, 08:53:14 PM »
I cut all my hair off! I now have a bob :0

Ooo, I want to see that! :O

Well, now it makes two of us that had really long hair and decided to chop it off. I'm still wondering if I should update my ssssona's appearance...
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #12254 on: November 15, 2015, 08:55:54 PM »
Meanwhile:
Spoiler: Unlos downloads Undertale • show

*is left in a room by a supposedly nice nun/monster, being told to wait*
*waits*
*waits*
peeks into next room
*uh oh*
*goes back to waiting*
Oh no the NP will get angry with me if I don't sit tight.
OH NO I can't call and disturb her
Maybe she WANTs me to take initiative and go into the next room anyway
What to dooo
*Hyperventilates*


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